The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories, The First Medicine Lodge, sentence 100
If the women you select to make the medicine and to cut and boil the tongue are pure women, the sick and the dying among your people will recover; if not, they will die.
Who acts: you, women, people · What happens: select, make, cut, boil, be, die · To what, where: women, medicine, tongue, pure women
This is a sentence of «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, The First Medicine Lodge. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, women, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 women | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 women | det |
| 3 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 women | nsubj |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 select | nsubj |
| 5 | select | select | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 women | acl:relcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 make | mark |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 select | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 medicine | det |
| 9 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cut | cc |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 cut | mark |
| 12 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 make | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 boil | cc |
| 14 | boil | boil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 cut | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tongue | det |
| 16 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 boil | obj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 women | cop |
| 18 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 women | amod |
| 19 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sick | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sick | det |
| 22 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 women | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 dying | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 dying | det |
| 25 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 sick | conj |
| 26 | among | among | ADP | _ | 30 recover | case |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 people | nmod:poss |
| 28 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 recover | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 recover | aux |
| 30 | recover | recover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 dying | ccomp |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 die | punct |
| 32 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 33 not | mark |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 die | advcl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 not | punct |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 die | nsubj |
| 36 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 die | aux |
| 37 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 sick | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 women | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | select | present | you | the women not said here | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent woman=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | you not said here | the medicine | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset medicine=Product | ||||
| 3 | cut | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | boil | infinitive | you not said here | the tongue | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tongue=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is a | present | the women | pure women | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | be | the women not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | die | gerund | the women not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | recover | future | your people | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | die | future | people | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories» by George Bird Grinnell, Project Gutenberg book 66596 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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